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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-02
TWO RAILWAY ACCIDENTS
FIVE COACHES PRECIPITATED
INTO A DITCH
Turn Bottom Upward, Ipjuring a
Number OF Passengers and Kill.
ing but One Outright.
A HEAVY FREIGHT AND A COAL
TRAIN COLLIDE
Smashing all the Cars in the Freight,
Scattering Merchandise In
Every Direction.

BISMARCK, OAK May 1.-The west
bound express on the Northern Pa
citic jumped the track today at about
l O'CLOCK, twelve miles out OF this city,
near Driscoll, and precipitated five OF
its seven coaches into q ditch. The
train was running on heavy down
grade at the time, and the heat OF the
sun, which was something unusual for
this feason here, had warped the rails.
The engine and express cars passed
over safely, but the five cars following
left the track and turned bottom up
ward In the ditch. Two OF the coach
es were loaded with two companies OF
the Seventh United States Cavalry, en-
route to Forts Yates and Buford. Toe
other three we're filed with emigrants
and first class passengers, mostly
bound for the Pacific coast. The fol-
lowing is a list Of the killed and
wounded:
KILLED.
W.O. Breed, Faribsult, MINI. He WIS
accompanied by his family, en route for
Washington Territory. He was stand
ing on the platform talking to Charles
Stanley, Of this city, when the crash
came, and In attempting to jump off
was caught by an overturning CT ach
aud crushed to death. Stanley escaped
injury by jumping off on the opposite
side. Mr.. Bresd's family were unin-
jured.i
THE WOUNDED ARE
c. II. Gray, Ellsworth Falls, Me-, cut
in the arm and head; Miss Gertrude
Hill, Bozemau, Mont, bally hurt in
ternally; ii FL. Scobell, assistant
superintendent of the Northern Pa.
cific telegraph lines, legs badly
smashed and doubts of his recovery
Michael MCCARTHY, Seventh Cavalry,
Fort Yates, seriously cut in shoulder
and collar bone broken; H. B. Scott
Seventh Cavalry, Fort Buford, Jaw
broken; Albert Wolf, Seventh Osva!.
ry, Fort Yates, and John O. Kelly
Fort Buford, injured internally, but
not seriously. Dr.. John Harcourt, O
Steele, was ON the train but escapeC
Injury, and at once set about attend
| ing the wounded, He telegrapheC
here for his brother, DR.. W. @. Hsr
court, OF Chicago, VINO was visitini
here, and the latter was at once con
veye1 to the wreck on hand car
Only the dining car and sleeper re
NAMED on the rails. 1t is surprisin &
under the circumstances, that a ecort
of people were not killed.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-02
A Fearful Collision Between Heavy
Freight Trains.

PoTTsvILLE, Pa, May IA disas-
trous accident occurred this afternoon
on the Philadelphia and Reading rail-
road about two miles north of
Tamsqus. A long freight train with
one engine pulling and another push
ling, was going north, and in rounding
a curvs collided with a loaded Goa
traia. The crash was Tremendous,
both engines being wrecked and the
box cars of the freight train shattered
almost from end to end, scattering
merchandise in every direction.
Brakeman Pruitt, OF the freight traio,
was Instantly killed. Fireman John
McAfee, also of the freight train, had a
leg crushed and is believed to be
otherwise fatally injured. The engi-
neer of the coal train was severely, but
probably not fatally hurt. The peCu-
mary loss to the company is very
heavy. The responsibility for the &C.
cident is charged to Assistant Dispatch
or Scott, of Tamaqus, in giving con-
fiicting running orders to the trains,
and it is said that he has disappeared.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-02
The Galveston News" on the
OrOuth.

GALVESTON, TEX, May THE
NeOs, commenting on the orouth,
says: The drouth Of last year and
that of the present season are unpar.
alleled in extreme Northwest Texas
and extreme southwest. There have
been rains Of late that will prove OF
incalculable benefit to the cattle dis
tricts, but the agricultural districts,
pure and simple, except, perhspe, in
lin ted area in Nor hern Texas, are
suffering seriously for wan. OF rain.
In all that belt OF country between
San Antonio and Austin, from Austin
to Waco, from Waco to Brtmond, and
down the Central railroad to Houston,
and within the circumference de-
scribed by this geographical cir
Gle, the country stands badly in
need OF moisture. Oats and small
grain within the district specified are
almost total failure, while corn, that
should be we'll advanced and in vigor-
Gus condition is seriously wilted and
in bad condition at the loot. This is
the worst feature of the agricultural
situation in Middle and Southern
Texas. There is still time ahead to
make cotton crop, although at best
the cotton crop is now bound to be
late. Unless rains come within six or
eight days the corn crop in Texas
will be very much Of a failure. so
serious is this outlook that wholesale
houses ale withdrawing their men
from the a1, pending a solution OF
the rainfall problem.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-02
An Umpire Re.irn.-

LOUISVILLE, KY, May Umpire
AL Rauer forwarded his resignation to
President Wikoh, Of the American As
sociation. late last night, He complains
that he has been unjustly censured
and treated unfairly,
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A Quarrel Ends in Murder.

ST.. LOUIS, Me-, May la special
from Louisiana, Mo, says: George
Ayers and Henry Lindfay qusrrelled
about an Indebtedness Of S., at Bowl
ing Green Saturday evening, and the
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No. A Madison street. Memphis. Tenn.

latter wss killed. Lindsay was on
horseback when the quarrel began, and
ss he dismounted Ayers &c zed him by
the throat and quickly drew knife
across it, cutting it from ear to ear.
Ayers fed, but was soon captured.
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NRnnrmn

Is REMOVED BY THR USE OF CocoAINE.
And it stimulates and promotes the
growth of the hair.
Burnett's Flavoring extracts are tho
best,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-02

These figures show a serious INSULT
cheney OF rainfall. which is intensified
when the exceedingly dry condition
of the soil prior to April LIST is consid-
cred. Total rainfall fIom October,
1885, to April /, 1887, at Palestine,
one OF the most central points in the
agricu tural district, aggregates 943
inches, against an average precipita-
ton OF %. 05 inches fer the same period
during the preceding seasons. From
Palestine northward to the Red river
this deficiency decreases to about
twelve inches, but from Palestine
southwark to the coast counties the
deficiency inc eases to twenty inches
in Brazos county and reaches its max
imum of twenty-five inches at euro,
aud throughout the Southern cotton
district where the plant is more back
ward than for ten years past.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-02

SAMUEL ggPPLEs.
nWIaHT TKEnWAY.

SAMUEL CUPPLES,
JEROME HILL,
JOHN r.. HOLMES,
DWIGHT TkEDWAr.
Among the Subscribers are:
] X Cummings, 5000; J. 6. Chap.
man, 500; s Cupples, 500; Hugh
McKittrick, 500; Greeley Burnham
Grocer Company, 500; Liggett q
Me, q Tobacco Company, 500; John
T. Davis, 500; John W. NOBLE, 500;
Cherries Parsons, 500; John A. Seud.
dsr, 500; Daniel Ca lin, 800; Huse
& Looms Ice Company, 800; George
E Leighton, 500; W. A. Hsrgacine,
500; Gerard B. Allen, 500; Summons
Hardware Company, 800; jerome
Hill, 500; st. Louis Stamping C,m
psny, 500; Auheuser Busch Brewing
Association, 500; Henry Hitchcock,
500; E. A. Hitchcock. 500; john
Whitaker, 500; L. M. Rumsey Man
uiscturing Company, 500; Charles
Clark, 500; Kaufman Milling Com
pany, 500; D NJ. Houser, 500; A.
B. Ewing, 500; w. II. Bliss, 500;
Krafft-HoImes Grocery Company,
500; Collier White Lead ana Oh
Company, 500; W. J. Lsmp, 800.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-18

orally and confusedly in succession
of panoramic figures representing Mrs.
Leatherwood and her daughter, and
what people said Of them.
That they lived very retired life so
far as social intercourse in the way of
talking over the back-fences with the
neighbor women was true. That they
went visiting" Misunderstanding the
little flying trips that Polly made to
my sister Elizabeth, or Liz. as most of
us called her-was also true. That
Bogus Leatherwood was very jealous
of his wife had many apparent facts to
back it, and was true or not true ac-
cording to the attitude of the individual
then considering the matter toward
Bogus. If he was jealous of his wife
he was also very jealous of his daugh-
ter. For considering their different
relations to society, Miss Polly had alb
solutely less liberty than Mrs Leath-
erwood herself
Some people had told of having
heard Bogus in towering rage and
making the ve-y earth tremble under
his leviathan tramplings up and down
the thick poplar planks of 1.-THE up
stairs" They said that neither neither
nor daughter would be seen for DAYS
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

do not overfeed your sheep or
place so much food before them that
they will leave any, for they will soon
learn to waste large quantities of it
Every kitchen should have set of
measures and scales for use in making
cakes and other articles which must be
compounded carefully and accurately
as regards proportions.
Matched teams, so far as appear
ances go. are very desirable upon the
road. but to the average farmer it is
more desirable to have the teams mated
equally in gait and strength.
Tomato Toast: Run quart of toma-
toes through the colander. put in
stew-pan, season with butter, pepper
and salt. Cut slices of bread. toast.
butter and lay on hot dish. and pour
the tomatoes on the toast.-Good Cheer.
If you have pictures hanging
against an outer wall protect them
from any possible damp by covering
the backs with sheet lead. or else keep
them from contact with the wall by
corks fastened to the lower end of the
frames.
Corn Cake Without Eggs: One
quart of buttermilk. one teaspoonful OF
soda, two tablespoonfuls of shortening,
one cup of flour and corn meal sufli-
cient for stiff batter; bake in roll pan
or biscuit tin in a moderate oven.-
Household.
Potato Croquettes: The potato il
such an essential article of diet. APP
pearing on most tables Mt least twice II
day. that different ways of preparing
them are always acceptable. When
cold mashed potatoes are left, season
with pepper and salt; beat to a cream.
with tablespoonful of melted butter
to every cupful of potatoes. Add two
or three well-beaten eggs and some
minced parsley. Roll into small balls.
Dip in beaten egg. then in bread
crumbs, and fry in hot lard.-Fdrm.
Field and Stoctmau.
"A correspondent of an exchange
urges planting nut trees along the high
ways instead. of the other kinds which
yield nothing of value and do not af-
ford any better shade than trees bear
ing delicious fruits and nuts. In culti-
waiting nut trees we are not neglecting
the aesthetics of our surroundings or
that of the highways. for the hickories.
walDuts and chestnuts are as noble
and beautiful trees as the naples. lin
dens and other common and familiar
roadside trees. -Indiandpolis journal
The increased heat of the sun will
not only produce an increase of bloom
in greenhouse and window plants. but
it will favor the multiplication of in
sects. Tobacco. in the form of smoke
as an infusion or '.tea," or rs dust, or
more conveniently as soap. applied
early, and followed up weekly, will
keep most insects in subsection. The
red spider is best subdued by frequent
showerings with water. Give air on
mild days. and commence to harden
the plants for their removal out-of-
doors.
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Now that the court and the itin-
Grant bar and their foreign clients and
other strangers were making deafen-
ing clatter with knives, and forks, and
plates. and cups. and saucers and loud
talk--carried on principally by the
court and bar, and listened to by the
other boarders, l slipped siyly into the
large east room, in which, at such
times, Polly Ann is usually brushing
UP the floor or combing her black hair
down into fiat bands over her temples.
There she is. indeed, at this time as
usual, but not engaged in any of her
ordinary occupations. She is looking
brighter and gayer. somehow, in her
makeup. There is bunch of red
ribbons in her hair that adds an meal
culable amount to her attractive
ness" must say nor. AT that day
only the word beauty could have been
wrung out of me as applied to her
even by all the known appliances of
inquisition.
'Why didn't you go in to supper
along with the rest, Jim?" she SAYS. in
a way to astonish me, while she sud-
denly occupies herself in rearranging
the chairs according to some mystic
rious formula wholly her own. In my
bcyish simplicity answer bluntly that
! am waiting TO eat with Buck and the
rest of the family. She laughs little,
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CHAPTER III.
a nr-prv NrD


The bar-room of Bogusses was fully
twenty-six feet square in the clear, save
for the small corner cut out for ''the
bar" and another small corner for the
''wash-bench'' and its appurtenances
A hard, slick oak floor made Il capital
surface for jig-dancing; and MIR. Mar
tin was ut the moment of our entrance
awaiting himself of all its facilities. He
had just finished "round," and with
the concluding caper half dozen loud
invitations to stake somethin'" re-
sounded on all'sides. From the med
ley of invitations Mr. Martin elected
20 drink with Judge Barker. who was
one of the most enthusiastic of APP
plauders, and was so carried away that
a general invitation to drink with tho
judge was alleged to be extended, and,
at all events, was promptly accepted
by three-fourths of the crowd.
Daring the twenty minutes interval,
in which babel of loud voices kept
everybody looking from one to another
of the crowd round the bar. the fiddler,
sitting in his chair and temporarily ex-
clude,l by the crowd of standing men
and boys, plucked me by the coat
sleeve.
'.Do You know ali them men at the
counter?' he asked, jerking his head
in the direction of the bibulOus cluster
of gentlemen hemming in the north
west corner OF the bar-room. I
nodded.
(Which is Judge Barks?''
"The tall man there with the high
shirt-collar un his hair hangun down
between his eyes-that un there right
plum before
"Bcfore Martini he asked, as
hcsitated.
Yes
''Then. which is Major ellis. tho
big lawyer?'
THAT short, heavy-sot man there
with
THAT un with the red bandana
tied aroun' his head
there?" Evidently with surprise and
disappointmen. at the personnel of the
''big lawyer"
''Yes, that's him"
can who's that big-shouldered fell
Ter this side NV imp
THAT'S Sect Dairy, the race-hoss
shoer."
1.-The sheriff's names Dairy. too,
ha;n't ut?"
"Yes. Hes the sheriff. He don't
have much sheriffun to do only when
courts h-yur. He blacksmiths most
Nv the time
fro BE coxruUED.I
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LEGAL HOLIDAYS.

Table Showing Those Observed IN
Various States Of the Union.
January l, New Years Day, is legal holi.
day in all the States except Arkansas, Del
aware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Massa-
chusetts. New Hampshire, Rhode Island and
North and South Carolina February -, OF
WashingtOn's birthday. in all the States ex.
cept Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois,
Indiana. Iowa. Kansas, Maine, Missouri
North Carolin&, Ohio. Oregon, Tennessee
and Texas. January 3, the anniversary OF
the battle of New Orleans. February IL. the
anniversary Of the birth Of Abraham Lin
coin, and March 4, the fremen's anniver.
sary, are legal holidays in Louisiana May
80, or Decoration Day. Is legal holiday
only In Colorado Connecticut, Maine. Mich
fgan, New Hampshire. New jersey, New
York. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Yer mont
and Wisconsin July 4, Independence Day,
and December %. Christmas Day, are legal
holidays in all the States and Territories
Thanksgiving Day and public fast-dayy ap-
pointed by the President Of the United
States. are legal holidays whenever pro-
claimed, throughout the Union Such days
are also legal holidays in any such States
wherein they may be set apart by procla-
nation of the Governor Days appointed
for general elections. State and National,
are legal holiday In California, Maine, Mis-
souri,, New Jersey, New York, Oregon.
South Carolina and Wisconsin Good FIJI
day is legal holiday in Florida Louisiana.
Minnesota and Pennsylvania Shrove Tues
day, or the day before the beginning Of
Lent, is legal holiday in Louisiana and in
the cities Of Mobile, Montgomery and Selma
Ala Memorial Day, April 20. is a legal heA.
day In Georgie March 2. the anniverharv
Of the independence Of Texas, and April 90,
the anniversary Of the battle Of San Jack2to.
we legal holidays in TexaA-CAieago Insss
nesnn
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cantatrces OF the first Christmas night,
when Heaven serenaded the earth with:
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will to men.
Lest we start too far of and get lost in
generalities, we had better begin with
ourselves-get our own hearts and life in
harmony with the eternal Christ. Oh. for
His almighty spirit to attune IA. to chord
our life with His life, and bring us into
unison with all that is pure and self sac.
rificing and heavenly. The strings of
our nature are all broken and twisted, and
the bow is so slack it can not evoke any
thing melifuous. The instrument ma de
for Heaven to play on has been roughly
twanged and struck by influences worldly
and demoniac. o master hand Of Christ,
restore this split, and fractured, and de-
spoiled, and unstrung nature until first it
shall wal OFT for our sin, and then thrill
with divine pardon.
The whole world must also be attuned
by the same power. few days ago
was in the Fairbanks Weighing Scale
Mandatory of Vermont Six hundred
hands. and they have never had strike.
Complete harmony between labor and cap
ital, the operatives Of scores of years in
their beautiful homes near by the man
sions of the manufacturers whose in
vention and Christian behavior made the
great enterprise. So all the world over
labor and capital will be brought in
euphony.
You may have heard what is called the
'Anvil Chorus" composed BY Verdi,
tune played by hammers, great and small.
now with mighty stroke, and now
with heavy stroke, beating . great
iron anvil. That b what the
world has got to come to-anvil
chorus, yard-stick chorus, shuttle chorus,
trowel chorus, crowbar chorus, pick-axe
Choir us, gold-mins chorus, rail.track
chorus, locomotive chorus. It can be done.
and it will be done. So all social life will
b attuned by the Gospel harp. There viii
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of, whilst i'm fact only saw him gen.
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THE AMERICAN CROW.
A Generally DespIsed Bird That Does the
Farmers Much Good.

A Generally Despised Bird That Does the
Farmers Much Good.
The crow is generally despied by
farmers. Why? The crow will some
times pull up the young corn plant to
get at the grain beneath. The intelli-
gent farmer does not begrudge Corvus
Americana. the scientific name for
crow, his small pilfcrings. for they well
know how to prevent the thieving OF
this sly bird. Our correspondent. W.
b. H. Wakeman, has this to say of this
dead black corn lover:
OF all the pets l ever owned tho
crow is the most interesting. He is
very mischievous as he picks up any
thing movable that is not longer than
himself. l have had several of these
pets, often as many as four ut one
time. / have studied their habits and
find them a source of unending amuse-
ment.
If I enumerated all their peculiari-
ties it would take more space than can
be allowed.
The crow is genuine mimic, often
hooking a laugh to perfection. They
become very tame when taken from
the nest before they can fly. I always
keep their wings clipped so they can
not get very far away.
They very soon learn to follow to the
garden and field and pick up the grubs
and worms after the soil is stirred.
When they have satisfied their abpe-
tites they still pick mp the grubs. hold.
ing them in their bills until they can
not hold another one, then they go to
some clod or stone and hide them,
making sure first that they are quite
dead. They are then ready for work.
One peculiar trait is, they will never
hide two lots under the same clOd.
have counted rs many as fifteen white
grubs under one stone.
Crows have the same habit as the
hawks and eagles-that Of ejectins
the indigestible portions of their food
from their stomach, in a round. COM
pact mass. composed Of fragments Of
bone or fur and the elytra of beetles
1 was very much amused to see how
closely one of these birds avoided eat
ing too much.
fed my crow one morning as he
was sitting on a 2Ns seantling. / gave
him boiled potato, all he would eat.
then 1 gave him lean beef of which he
was very fond This made rather more
than he could well keep down. About
five minutes. after / had fed him the
meat, he began eieeting it piece by
piece. carefully laying it on the seant-
ling beside hin; then up came the POI
tato. which he dropped on the ground.
He then turned and again swallowed
the meat, giving y satisfied Hutter to
his wings at each monthful.
/ exporinsented with him in regard
to the different kinds of insects he
would eat. and found he preferred the
white grub Qarva of the Dor.) and
also the stag beetles. but would kiln
most any kind Of beetle. The crow
will also eat small toads. frogs and
cray fish.
The crow has been much abused.
He will do some mischief, 1t is true.
but did you ever see any beast or bird
that did not have some disagreeable
traits? The good he does the farmer
more than balances the mischief. The
crow deserves to be protected. instead
of being target for every small boy
with n shot gun. often more dangerous
to friend than foe.-F6rns, Field Gad
StoeEmQR
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dragon, which is a winged serpent,
ferocious and tleathfui.
And so fond is the world of contention
that we climb out through the heavens
and baptize one of the other planets with
the spirit of battle and call it Mars after
the god Of war, and we give to the eighth
sign of the zodiac the name of the
scorpion, a creature which is chiefly cele-
brated for its deadly sting. But, after all,
these symbols are expressive Of the way
nation feels toward nation. Discord wide
as the continent and bridging the seas. l
suppose you have noticed how warmly in
love dry goods stores are with other dry
goods stores, and how highly grocery.
men think Of the sugars Of
the grocery men on the same block.
And in what a eulogistic way allopathic
and homeopathic doctors speak of
each other, and how ministers will some
times put ministers on their beautiful
cooking instrument which the English
call a spit, an iron roller with spikes on it
and turned by a crank before hot fire.
and then if the minister being roasted
cries out against it, the men who are turn
lug him say, 'sHush, brother! We are turn
ing this spit for the glory Of God and the
good Of your soul, and you must be quiet
while we close the service with:
Blest be the tie that binds
dur hearts in Christian love.
The earth is diametered and circum.
ferenced with discord, and the music that
was rendered at the laying Of the worlds
corner .stone, when the morning stars
sang together, is not heard now; and
though here and there, from this and that
part Of society, and from this aud that
part of the earth, there comes mp a thrill.
ing solo Of love, or o war''le Of worship,
or a sweet duet Of patience, they are
drowned out by discosd that shakes the
earth.
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THERE are = any ways in which Il would
be well for Us all to carry our childhood
with ua even on into old age. If II were poo
sible, in its truthfulness and opsn-heaTtsd-
n.8 and willingness. not only to love, bat
10 show that we love, a. well Why, that
last, alone. would cure many . heart GoAs
Of to-day.-.Ksy " AeKsaA